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Title
Media Convergence in Japan
Size
296 pages, paperback
Language
English
Released
May 20, 2016
ISBN
9780692629956
Published by
Kinema Club
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The Japanese media system is in a state of flux as a result of shifts in the digital economy, new audience metrics and declining print and broadcast revenues. This volume examines issues of media consolidation, participatory culture and franchising in contemporary Japan, and explores how the Japanese media system is adapting to change in light of its tendency toward prioritizing domestic markets, restricting access and co-opting fan movements. The chapters consider conflict and negotiations within the Japanese media system, structural transformations, emerging modes of producer and audience relations and potential sites of innovation.
(Written by Jason G. Karlin, Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies / 2018)
Table of Contents
Jason G. Karlin
2. Networking Citizens through Film Screenings: Cinema and Media in Post-3/11 Social Movements
Hideaki Fujiki
3. Convergence and Globalization in the Japanese Videogame Industry
Mia Consalvo
4. When the Media Do Not Quite Converge: The Case of Fuji TV and Livedoor
Shinji Oyama and Dario Lolli
5. Obasan and Kanryū: Modalities of Convergence of Middle-Aged Japanese Women Around South Korean Popular Culture and Gender Divergence in Japan
John Lie
6. On Two-Dimensional Cute Girls: Virtual Idols
Yoshida Masataka
7. Ensoulment and Effacement in Japanese Voice Acting
Shunsuke Nozawa
8. Producing Hatsune Miku: Concerts, Commercialization and the Politics of Peer Production
Alex Leavitt, Tara Knight, and Alex Yoshiba
9. The Labor of Love: On the Convergence of Fan and Corporate Interests in Contemporary Idol Culture in Japan
Patrick W. Galbraith
10. Anxious Proximity: Media Convergence, Celebrity and Internet Negativity
Daniel Johnson